Making a Necessity of Memory
Poet Natasha Trethewey garnered critical praise with her first two collections, Domestic Work (2000) and Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002). Her third book, Native Guard, confirmed her as a leading American poet…
New Deals
In a recent report on the rise of children’s and YA titles as a percentage of publishing profits, The New York Times reported some surprising numbers: “Revenue from children’s and…
Connecting the Bones
It is a place very few people have ever visited and one that most people wouldn’t want to go. Its proper name—the Forensic Anthropology Center—is virtually unknown by the public….
Sisters Under the Skin
The eighteen contributors to An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots are a multicultural group: black, white, Native American, Asian, Latina, lesbian, straight—and that’s not…
Dictionary as Southern Cocktail
Roy Blount Jr. is one of those rare writers whose actual voice has become almost as familiar as his literary one. Most weekends, you can hear his signature blend of…
Steady as Time
Appalachian poet, novelist, and short-story writer James Still was born in Alabama and educated in Tennessee—at Lincoln Memorial University and Vanderbilt—but he spent most of his life in the mountains…
